California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of gun laws aimed at addressing gun violence, reducing domestic violence and bolstering the state’s red flag laws that allow people to remove firearms from individuals deemed dangerous on Tuesday.
“California won’t wait until the next school shooting or mass shooting to act. In the absence of congressional action, our state is once again leading the way by strengthening our nation-leading gun laws,” Newsom said in the press release.
The package includes measures that strengthen safe storage requirements to protect children, develop more training for law enforcement to build on red flag laws, and create more resources for child custody caseworkers and officers to determine whether abusers can have access to firearms.
It also includes measures restricting animal abusers and individuals unable to stand trial from having guns, as well as a proposition aimed at increasing information-sharing so that it’s easier for courts in the state to prevent individuals deemed as threats from possessing firearms.